3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
9th December 2011
Pint in the Goodmas Fields Spoons. Clear dark amber - brown beer. Smooth palate with a little carbonation. Seems to be in good condition! Smooth rich malt for an ESB, robust but never roasty or bitter. A little cream. Well balanced mild orangey hops. Finishes smooth. Satisfying and drinkable - a decent ESB.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask at the Willow Walk (JDW), Victoria. Golden amber with a thin cream head; malty aroma with a touch of carmael; soft with an orange fruit flavour; then gently bitter leaving a sweet grapefruit tang at the finish.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
Amber color with a very small light brown head. Malty aroma. Roasted malt in taste. A little thin of a Christmas beer to be, but otherwise very good
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask conditioned Handpump Eastgate Northampton. A dark brown coloured beer with a ruby hint and a whitish head and lace. Thin in the aroms; hints of berry fruits. Decent bready malts in the mouth. Fruity flavours, not bad. A decent body too.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask, The Francis Newton, Sheffield. Dark copper, slightly metallic caramel aroma with faint cardamon. Balanced verging on overly sweet, toffee then a surprise pepper on the long finish.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at the Crosse Keys, JDW, London. Pours clear, shiny copper with a weak, foamy head. Aroma holds some almost smokey, toasty malts and subtle dark fruits. Nice flavor, with some meaty, salty but underweighted smokiness, slight jam, biscuits. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Sweet, medium duration smokey finish, with rich bread, subtle leaves and grass. Interesting and enjoyable.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
UPDATED: DEC 15, 2011 1) Beers of Advent day 8. Bottle chilled in the snow, as last night. Good yeasty aroma a bit like banoffee pie, with some oily hop presence. Pours out pale, brilliant ruby with a beige swirl of head. Crisp, solid bitter with caramel, mulled apple yeastiness, hints of redcurrant, chalk, nut husk and a malted milk biscuit aftertaste. Finishes hop dry with an underplayed fruitiness that reminds me of an alt. Like it.
2) Spoons, Hinckley, 15/12/11. Deep chestnut with a slim, well behaved cream lid. Walnut, polished wood and chocolate aroma. Fine, full bodied and slippery with notes of praline, walnut, dried figgy fruit, a hint of orange and a lingering, husky, cocoa-dusted malt finish. Milk choc Hobnob afters. Rich and heady- couldn’t session it. Festive stuff. 637414.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottled. Amber colour, small fluffy off-white head. Aroma is caramel malts, some floral and wooden hoppyness as well as mild spices. Flavour is quite much the same.
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